Flowing into Friday ~ 04/02/10

Happy Good Friday everyone! This day may it be a blessing and bring joy to you all! I prayed about my post as I always do. I give thanks for the great things that have been given to me in my life.

Some have grown and some yes they do fall away. We all have a season that we answer to and we all look upon different seasons to harvest what we have sowed. Some we take time to plant and work that planting to get the best crop for our harvest.

I came upon the following from Ecclesiastes 3* (from the New Living Translation) Take time to mediate on this today. Everything has its season.

For everything there is a season,

a time for every activity under heaven.

A time to be born and a time to die.

A time to plant and a time to harvest.

A time to kill and a time to heal.

A time to tear down and a time to build up.

A time to cry and a time to laugh.

A time to grieve and a time to dance.

A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.

A time to embrace and a time to turn away.

A time to search and a time to quit searching.

A time to keep and a time to throw away.

A time to tear and a time to mend.

A time to be quiet and a time to speak.

A time to love and a time to hate.

A time for war and a time for peace.

What do people really get for all their hard work?

I have seen the burden God has placed on us all.

Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time.

He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole

scope of God’s work from beginning to end.

So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy

ourselves as long as we can.

And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these

are gifts from God.

It was on this day Good Friday that God passed up on his son to die for man.

So that we may have life everlasting. What a season we are in for today.

This week I have take time to write about the heart and its place in our actions and thoughts. I will write next week more about why the heart for many that has lost its way and become isolated from true honesty and passion.

This day though is for the season, our season to rise above anger.

To rise above hate.

To rise above disillusionment.

Together we all can make that difference for this season. Be a person of service. Service for the lonely, service for the homeless and yes service to those who all they really need is a smile and a kind word.

Till next time....take time to make this your season,. A season to share that smile and make a difference.

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Positive Thought Thursday ~04/01/10

Happy Thursday everyone and welcome to April 1st. No April Foolery here, there will be enough on other sources to entertain you. Sunny day scheduled here for Pittsburgh and a very nice way to start the month of April, high of 78 degrees.

So I thank all of you who stopped by yesterday and commented on the post. I hope you took some time for yourself to think on how you can make a difference this month and share your heart to enlighten someone. Lift their load.

So yesterday I asked you to follow your heart, listen to your soul and spirit, look and develop this gift that we all have. To listen to our spirit, feel our intentions of what is really inside of us.

We all have good in our spirit, and our soul.

Even the evil, those with so much hatred or anger or rage, have the contrasting spirit inside their soul. We all can look at another person with a kind eye and know that the anger inside of them is really sadness, and loneliness manifested into something else.

We all need love. We all need to feel hope and have faith in more that ourselves.

So the question I left you with yesterday that I promised discussion today is what can we do to help , focus and address the issues of the and our heart?

How can we help the lonely, the sad ?

How can we address the issues of the heart? Of our heart?

We all have trials and tribulations that we all walk through. Some of health issues, recent loss, fear, loneliness. What ever the issue at the moment this storm shall to pass.

This storm shall to pass.

Focus on that, it has been said many times at one time or another we all have moment that we feel we are in a state of hell. The key that is so true is you don't stop walking through that moment, you keep moving forward. Action, reaction to the results, measure your next step, take action again. Move and roll with the punches that life hands out but don't give up. Keep moving, keep loving, keep a smile in place that will conquer the moment of pain.

Focus is defined as he concentration of attention or energy on something;

That something is the moment of sadness, the fear or the emotion that is not positive or effective to your future happiness.

Anthony Robbins has been quoted :

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

Martina Navratilova also is quoted as saying:

I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

When we dwell on the negative, we get what we dwell on.

When we dwell on sadness we are sad.

When we dwell on being along we are indeed alone.

Dwell and focus on what makes your heart soar.

Dwell and focus on the future joy and not past pain.

When we, all of us, can focus on what we want, not what we don't want, create a plan of one step even and focus on the result. The longest journey anywhere begins with one step.

One simple step to happiness! One simple step towards listening to your heart and spirit that lies within. The moment we first start to listen to our own heart, the cry that it gives when alone, when sad and what it yearns for. Then and only then can we focus and dwell on what it takes to get it to the other side of joy and happiness.

Fear has been defined as False Evidence Appearing Real.

Fear and hate is conquered by action, focus and love.

Thats how we change the broken heart, the sad, the lonely.

We entertain the possibility that there is another possibility.

Someone will hate, someone will be sad, someone will have fear.

We are the ones that can show love, show happiness and take away that false evidence through a smile, through encouragement and hope of a better way.

Hope, Faith and Love but the greatest of these is Love.

A smile, a kind word, a friendly gesture towards changing another persons perspective, at the very least for that moment in time. Who really knows what that smile can do to the very core of their heart and spirit.

Make that difference. Share that smile, that kind word of encouragement.

Focus on what we all can do, not what has been done but what has yet to be done.

Till next time.....Share that smile.....

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